We cannot be passive and silent towards those who reject God’s Word and our holy faith.
ABRAHAM KUYPERThere is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry, Mine!
More Abraham Kuyper Quotes
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He is employed in the service of his God. He has strictly to obey his God. And above all, he has to aim at the glory of his God.
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The Holy Scripture is like a diamond: in the dark it is like a piece of glass, but as soon as the light strikes it the water begins to sparkle, and the scintillation of life greets us.
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He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.
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There is not one square inch of the entire creation about which Jesus does not cry out, ‘This is mine!’
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The seminaries must be like the churches’ poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
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It is everywhere, in all parts of the world; and whatever its external form, frequently changing, often impure, yet the gifts wherever received increase our riches.
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God created hand, head, and heart; the hand for the deed, the head for the world, the heart for mysticism.
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In the school and in the State for the good of the people; to carve as it were into the conscience of the nation the ordinances of the Lord
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. This sovereignty of genius is a gift of God, possessed only by his grace. It is subject to no one and is responsible to him alone who has granted it this ascendancy.
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What is hell other than a realm in which unholiness works without restraint in body and soul?
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There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry, Mine!
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But within these spheres … another authority rules, an authority that descends directly from God apart from the state. This authority the state does not confer but acknowledges.
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The motive of art comes to us not from what exists, but from the notion that there is something higher, something nobler, something richer, and that what exists corresponds only partially to all of this.
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And, unable to grasp the holier benefits of religion, the mysticism of the heart reacts in the art-intoxication. ….
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The curse should no longer rest upon the world itself, but upon that which is sinful in it, and instead of monastic flight from the world the duty is now emphasized of serving God in the world, in every position in life.
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